Profitability & Cost Control Leader - Logistics Analytics

Flow Progressive Logistics; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 504,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Progressive Logistics seeks an experienced finance professional to drive cost management and profitability analysis across shipments and customers. You will lead job-costing, budgeting and forecasting, partnering with Operations, Commercial, Procurement and Finance to ensure accurate margins and timely close.

The role requires strong Excel, ERP/TMS experience and analytics storytelling to support actionable decisions and cost-improvement plans in a logistics environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A or cost management in logistics.
• Professional qualifications CMA/ACCA/CIMA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Validate rates against contracts; flag deviations and margin risks.
• Own job-cost completeness by shipment and material, including accruals.
• Coordinate timely customer billing and supplier invoicing; resolve workflow issues.
• Perform ERP/TMS reconciliations and support month-end close.
• Build budgets, forecasts and scenarios; explain variances.
• Analyze CM1, GP and OP by customer, lane, shipment, product and vendor.
• Produce dashboards, trend and root-cause analyses with actionable insights.
• Lead profitability reviews, savings initiatives and benefit realization tracking.
• Monitor unbilled revenue, SO/PO gaps through closure.
• Design and test controls; support audits and data-quality reviews.

Skills

Analytical storytelling

Stakeholder influence

Team leadership

Forecasting and budgeting

Cost control

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting

Tools

ERP/TMS

Power BI

Advanced Excel

SQL & data modeling

Job description

Flow Progressive Logistics seeks an experienced finance professional to drive cost management and profitability analysis across shipments and customers. You will lead job-costing, budgeting and forecasting, partnering with Operations, Commercial, Procurement and Finance to ensure accurate margins and timely close.

The role requires strong Excel, ERP/TMS experience and analytics storytelling to support actionable decisions and cost-improvement plans in a logistics environment.